Main Menu

Top Social

Books Without Borders

January 14, 2017

The last book that I read in 2016
was “Rumah Kertas”, originally titled “La Casa de Papel”, written by Carlos
Maria Dominguez and translated by Ronny Agustinus.

This novelette is so thin, yet
the storyline is so wild, absurd, so crazy. In the novelette Dominguez drops
many author names, such as Baudelaire, Conrad, Garcia Marquez, Goethe,
Huidobro, Julian Barnes, Marosa di Giorgio, Martin Amis, Pallière, and Vargas
Llosa. I’ve heard some of them. But haven’t read any of them. I felt lost. I
really want to read all of them. Though I know for sure that not all of them is
in line with my taste. A very uneducated taste.

“Let’s travel the world to open
and broaden your mind”. I am surrounded by that jargon. Man, people are so
difficult. They need to travel to open their minds, can’t they just meditate
and have an out of body experience or something?

Sorry, I don’t mean to belittle
those people. It’s just I don’t really like travelling and all the difficulties
that I have to face during the journey, that they say may open my mind. I’d
rather be protected by my blanket inside my warm room.